coxsackie virus. please read.

My son was just diagnosed with mild coxsackie. since my pediatric sucks I gad to look on the internet for most of my information on this virus. I see they said your baby can get this from saliva and fece. my baby is not exposed to neither. So can you guys tell me in detail how he could have gotten this. Plz thank.you

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It's basically a form of Hand, foot and mouth. If you went to the grocery store and your LO touched the cart after another kid that was carrying it touched it, they can get it. Once it gets in a daycare, it spreads like wildfire. Both of my kids have had it at different points. It's a virus, nothing to do but let it run it's course and give tylenol / ibuprofen. DS picked his up on a visit to the doctors office when he was 2 and dd got it at daycare.

Oh, goodness, Coxsackie is one of the fastest-spreading viruses in existence! It is SO EASY to get.

Feces doesn't mean the baby played in poop...it means that the edge of a diaper rubbed on the same floor, or someone didn't quite wash their hands. Same with saliva, it takes microscopic amounts to spread Coxsackie.